Format

DOBES Archive

Length: 8:00 min
The speaker talks about the last rainy season. She wanted to go to the country after her sons, so she gave the yucca field to her older sister to take care of it. The rain had flooded everything.

Length: 2:30 min
The speaker tells about a problem that took place during the same day. The machetero dancers were angry at the women who sweep the church (among which is the speaker's sister), because they are not paid as much as the others. The priest decided that the six sweeping women, the abaresas, get one entire cow for themselves, while the others don't get anything.

Length: 00:03:20
The speaker talks about the past when she was living with her family in Peru (a small village nearby). One night the family went out and left the child sleeping in the house. When they came back the child was gone. A neighbour heard her and helped the little girl., Duración: 00:03:20
La parlante habla del pasado cuando ella y su familia vivían en Peru (un pueblito cercano). Una noche la familia salió y dejó el niño durmiendo en la casa. Al regreso el niño se había ido. Un vecino escuchó al niño y el ayudó.

Length: 4:10 min
Speaker talks about her grandfather who couldn't read nor write but who was nonetheless a wealthy man. He had never attended school and had become a wealthy cattle-owner. His illiteracy was no disadvantage to him. The speaker's mother (the speaker's grandfather's daughter) wanted a pair of earrings, so her father sold one cow in order to buy them. And now the speaker has lost this pair of earrings and she will not put on other ones.